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UNIAN: Lavrov says Normandy Four talks ‘impossible’ following Zakharchenko killing

By UNIAN.

Published Sept. 2, 2018 at 10:25 am

(L-R) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov reactv as they prepare to pose for a picture at Villa Borsig in Berlin on June 11, ahead of a Normandy Format meeting on the conflict in Ukraine.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said further talks in the Normandy Four format were “impossible” after the murder of the leader of the “DPR” terrorist organization, Alexander Zakharchenko.

“In the current situation, of course, it is impossible to talk about the next meetings in the Normandy format, as many European partners wanted,” Lavrov told journalists on Satuday, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Moscow.